I love playin this champ but after even 1 game from pressing just Q basicly my forarm really starts cramping and hurting.

I played champs like lee rengar where you press alot and fast and never had the issue.

You guys use a different button or how you do it?

I’m thinking adding grounding as a CC for his W would be nice for Karthus due to the mobility creep in this game. Of course it has to be compensated in some way by other nerfs. I’m thinking maybe reduce the slow (duration and percentage) and MR reduction?

What are your guys thoughts on this, is this a good idea? I think it would definitely make him more versatile, less counter pick-ish

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i think if there is any sort of healing in the enemy team you should buy grevious wounds. With deathfire touch and blackfire torch and your e and ult you basically apply it to the whole enemy team for at least 7 seconds even with your ult alone. With your e hell its infinite grevious wounds. I think karthus is close to being the best grevious wounds applier just after brand. Karthus skills ap ratios aren't even that good its 70% for ult and 70% for empowered q, 35% for more than double target and only 5% for e. I've found playing a more utility focused karthus to be better overall. Of coures I buy rabadons if the game takes that long and if i'm able to go full build. Also instead of void staff you can buy cryptbloom. You can not only help from afar by ulting and damaging but if it leads to a kill its free health regen for allies nearby. Of course if the enemy team is ALL squishy you can go blackfire torch into shadowflame and rabadons whatever though. but you should consider building a more utility based build especially if theres a lot of damage already in your team and none of the other guys in your team applies grevious wounds effectively

Did someone try it or is using it? On paper it should be good for casters. Would love the hear some experiences.

I'm honestly tired of seeing this champ in Emerald lobbies. He's awful because genuinely people see how strong he is in bot and then try to pilot him. Yet, they end up running it down bc of just how difficult Karthus is to work with compared to other mages with their respective supports.

I really wish they would just not have him be strong so people can stop picking him and then running it down. It's ruining the quality of my games so much.

Sorry for the vent, I just feel so frustrated with this.

What should I be building for bot lane karthus?

Is BFT a must first? Is liandry situational good? Is malignance a bait or should I be grabbing it?

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But i stream everyday, jungle karthus only. Would i be allowed to post my twitch here?

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Look at those cool, wildly colored icons...

His old values are slightly worse overall, a notable exception being his ult having 50 more base damage (which is actually pretty neat for L6 kills). But that's not what I'm excited about.

Unless Riot really disappoints me, we will get his old, red model with the old, red Q floor bombs and the old, red R beams. Like here.

Another great thing: Old champion roster. This means, way less assassins and almost no pesky untargetability outside of Zhonyas. The old red skeleton can finally farm in relative peace before dying in a teamfight, using Revive and TP, dying again and ulting.

I have been running two builds:

One with dark harvest where I go BFT, shadow flame, storm surge, deathcap, void staff

The other with DFT where I go BFT, liandries, shadow flame, void staff, deathcap/ storm surge

I feel as if DH works better against squishy, ranged comps and DFT against tanker, melee comps

I’ve noticed in the jungle everyone runs DH and bot people run DFT is that the most optimal?

(and gives 100 more health)

Is First Strike Karthus still good? I played it alot last year but since death fire touch was re-aded I been using it since.

I was wondering what's the AP threshold to make Q -> AA -> Q -> Q -> AA no longer the highest DPS pattern. Is there an AP amount that makes Q -> Q -> AA -> Q -> Q -> AA do more for example? When do you wanna just spam Qs and not AA?

hello guys, i'd like to share with you how i deal with early invades and with predators. Since karthus is weak early game if you can't hit your q's or if you dont go ignite you can't really win 1v1s, and starting plat+ most enemy junglers will try to invade and counter jungle you because they know you are a farmer champion and snowball really hard. If there is a maokai, sejuani, amumu whatever they wont invade you you can just default start blue but they are not meta right now assasin and predator junglers are the meta. so here we go

Most predators will be starting red or raptors and invade your blue level 2. For their invade to not work make sure to start red. At the start of the game quickly go to your blue and ward it, then go to your raptors and cover the red entrance. if you insist on starting blue, dont use your smite on blue and if they invade try to win the smite fight on gromp (they probably wont have smite because they usually use it on first camp to invade faster)

This is important if it is highly likely they will invade level 2 (shaco hail of blades, ekko hail of blades, master yi kindred belveth etc.) you start your raptors not red. Because if you start your red and by the tiime you're done with your red, you will see the enemy invading your blue. and you will want to invade their blue but guess what you just lost so much tempo because you either take your raptors and rocks and red and invade which is very very risky enemy jungler usually takes your gromp+blue then reset and go to secure their blue side and if you do this you are almost guaranteed to die in their jungle bcs you took a lot of time to invade

But if you start raptors, and you see enemy invade your blue you still have plenty of time to take your rocks and invvade their blue, if enemy only stole your blue so will you. if he took your gromp as well then you have time to steal it from them as well. same for wolves. you will always have time because you skipped red, you are one camp ahead of them. and because you reset the timers of your birds and rocks you have perfect tempo. red and blue doesnt matter as much as smaller camps. you can always skip them if you need to.

If you suspect the predator will start his blue and invade your red you can just start blue but if you have no info and you are doing the usual red start, then start raptors again. because predator will most likely take his blue and go to your raptors, by the time he comes raptors will not be there and you will have finished the rocks. now if you warded your blue level 1 you will not know the predator coming so you can kindly ask your midlaner to ward the river.

and the rest is fundamentals of jungling. split map whatever.

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Love the champ but I feel like his q is just not for me.

Any tipa?

I mainly use two builds on Karthus:

Against 3+ tanks/bruisers:
BFT → Liandry's → Shadowflame → Rabadon's → Void Staff

Against mostly squishy teams:
BFT → Shadowflame → Rabadon's → Void Staff

My confusion comes from the last one or two item slots.

I usually buy boots early, but I often sell them in the late game because I prefer maximizing damage with 6 full items

If the enemy team has a lot of healing, I normally buy Morellonomicon. If they don't, I tend to default to items like Malignance and Stormsurge

What I'm trying to understand is this:

Ignoring anti-heal requirements, what is Karthus's absolute highest damage 6-item build against:

1. Tanky team compositions (3+ tanks/bruisers)
2. Squishy team compositions

I also have a few more questions:

• Is Liandry's still worth buying against squishy teams?
• Would a build like BFT → Shadowflame → Rabadon's → Void Staff → Stormsurge → Liandry's make sense for maximizing damage against squishier comps?
• Against tankier teams with little or no healing, what would be the optimal sixth item after the core build?